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The Silence (2019) – Review

⭐️⭐️ Originally, I didn’t like the sound of The Silence as I’d recently watched The Quiet Place (of which the film shares many similarities) but I like Stanley Tucci and Kiernan Shipka was running hot from the Chilling Tales of Sabrina, so I decided to give it a go. First impressions seemed reasonable, the premise was that a horde of unknown monsters had appeared and were attracted to sound – that I can get behind. The family which included a girl with a sound-related disability had to find shelter somewhere and stay as quiet as possible to survive – OK starting to sound a bit familiar now. They then endure…

One Punch Man Returns

When One Punch Man first hit our screens in October 2015, the Internet didn’t know what to do with itself. For someone like myself who up to that point only had a passive interest in the anime genre, it was exactly what I wanted – a reasonably short season, a gorgeous style, comedy in droves and a sales pitch that was so absurd it had no excuse to not succeed. I didn’t have the time to become invested in a show that had episodes that ventured into triple digits and any “serious” anime was not something I craved whatsoever – One Punch Man checked every box. I won’t lie, I’ve…

Winter Has Finally Arrived

Game of Thrones, arguably the most highly anticipated and successful TV drama of all time, is finally coming to an end. After the end of Season 7 and the news that due to weather and filming constraints the final season would be 2 years down the line surfaced, it feels surreal that those 2 years have passed, and the end is nigh for the inhabitants of Westeros. I first discovered Game of Thrones in the same vain as Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead – the show was deep into its 4th season and I had no interest in watching it whatsoever, a mistake I’ve made almost continuously in my…